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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-09

Muffiers, soc. to $5.
Linen table covers, with napkins to
match, $5 to So set.
Embroidered aprons, CSC. to S2.
Muffs.
Kid gloves.
Boys ties.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-09

ONE. wHo-wAs-THRRR.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
The PUBLIC DEBT.

Reduction During July of Nearly So
100000 - Some Interesting Figures
from the Treasu~er's Report.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The public debt
was reduced "A, S44, 1914 during the month Of
July.
The amount of gold owned by the G ov-
eminent has varied little for three months.
1t was between S16G, 0J0, 00) and $1S7 000,-
QUO on June l, July and August 1. Dur
ing July the stock of gold fell of 1863, 339
The number of silver dollars owned by
the Government has varied little for five
months. 1t was in round numbers $74, 00),-
900 April l, $72 900, 900 May l. S73, 900, 900
June and July /, and $72, 900, 900 August
/. The decrease for July was 1898, 32).
The national bank currency outstanding
is S276, 204 523, a decrease for the month of
81 759 231, and for twelve months of So 81 1, d.
Bis. The decrease in circulation secured
by United States bonds in the twelve
months is $50, 81, $50. This includes the
national bank notes still outstand ng, but
the legal tender for the redemption of
which have been deposited.
The receipts for July were $50, 81 S72, an
increase Of 81, 200, COO over July, 1885. The
expenditures were $35, 1876, 1924, or nearly
$4,000, 900 more than in July, 1886. Of the
increased revenue $500, 900 comes from GUS
toms, $500, 000 from internal revenue, and
nearly 5000, 000 from miscellaneous sources
OF the increased expenditures very nearly
s. 900, 900 is due to the general expenses Of
the Government Pensions show an in-
crease of $500,0J0, though July is not a
month tWhen large amounts of pension
money are paid out, and even interest
shows an increase of S250,0O
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
WEST AND SOuTH.

THE thermomet in Central Illinois on
the 2Sth reached 100 degrees, causing sew
eral prostrations from the heat, some of
which proved fatal
JOSEPH RICH, his aged mother and two.
year-old child, while driving over a rail-
way crossing near Richmond, Ind, on the
Goth, were struck by train and all, in
Guiding the horses, were killed.
THE Wells d French Company's bridge
and car-building works in Chicago were
burned on the goth. Loss, sl5O,001
ERsEN's bakery, in Chicago, burned on
the Goth and Mrs. Nelson Trudeau and her
two-year-old child were burned to death
while trying to escape from an upper story
and ten other inmates were seriously in
jured.
AT Key West up to the 18th there had
been 173 cases of yellow fever this season,
torty-one having resulted fatally.
IN the vicinity of Mason City, Ia, a
heavy wind-storm occurred on the Goth.
several buildings were unroofed and barns
and dwellings blown down.
IN various sections of Illinois and Indi-
ana the prolonged drought was playing
SAD havoc with the corn and grass crops
on the Goth.
II the Chicago 'boodler'' trial on the
18th George c. Klehm, the chairman of
the County Board, entered plea of guilty
just as the States Attorney was ready to
close the case for the State
DAVID CRY, Neb., was swept by lorna
do on the 10Th, half the buildings of the
town, including two churches, being lev
eled to the ground One man was killed
The financial loss was placed at 500, 000
THE mercury in the thermometer regis.
tered 10 degrees in the shade on the Goth
at Nebraska City, New, LOG at Kansas
City, Mo-, 102 at Louisville, KY. 103 at
Omaha, Neb., 10 at Champaign, ILL.,, los at
Hamburg, Ia, and 100 at Leavenworth,
Kan.
AT meeting at Toledo on the 29th the
State League of Ohio Republican clubs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
LATER.

| A HEAVY wind and rain storm the ID
at Charleston, W. Va, blew down trees,
unroofed large buildings and wrecked
small houses. The damage to crops in the
surrounding country was heavy.
SEVENTEEN prostrations from heat oc-
Cured on the I'd in Chicago, and sixteen,
were reported in New Y ork
DURING the month of July there was a
net decrease of Sc, 663, 74S in the cash IN the
Treasury and net increase of 81, 047, 133 In
the circulation.
THE Maryland Prohibitionists met in
State convention on the Cd at Glyndon ana
nominated a full State ticket, with Sum-
merfieid Baldwin, of Baltimore, for Gov
ernor
THE two babes of Phillip Little, miner
in California Gulch, Col, were burned to
death in their fathers cabin on the "a.
AT New Brunswick, n. j., on the "a a
hurricane, accompanied by the heaviest
rainfall in many years. did much damage.
Several buildings were struck by light.
ming.
A FIRE on the ID in Montreal, Can.
made fifty families homeless
DURING the month of July, "a, S44 i'm mi
grants were landed at Castle Garden,
making a total of "a 449 since January l
last. During the same period of last year
the number was 173, al.
a TERRIFIC rain and hail-storm and cy.
clone occurred on the I'd near Knobsvitle,
Pa, leveling trees and growing crops,
ADvIcEs of the 81 say that during tho
recent election in Kentucky a fight oc-
Cured IN Clay County, in which six men
were killed.
AN earthquake shock was feltin portions
of Illinois Missouri, Tennessee, Indiana
and Kentucky early on the morning of the
81, but no serious damage was DONE
The Indians on the Mile Laos reserva-
ton in Minnesota were on the ID reported
to be on the war path, and serious trouble
was apprehended.
A LARGE section of land near Golden
Pond, KY, sank half-dozen feet during
an earthquake on the I'd. Thedistrict wa )
slowly filling with water; and dwellers
on the land had been compelled to move
out.
The coinage of the mints during July
was Sl,96o,009, of which $4,000 was in
standard silver dollars.
Fl. w. WILKINS, editor of the Whitehall
Times, died at Whitehall, n Y, on the I'd,
after few hours illness.
NEAR Homer, Mich, on the 2l George
Burton shos and killed his wife, from
whom he had been separated, next fatally
shot his mother-.n-law,i in the back of the
head, and then blew out his own brains.
New York Republicans will mest in
State convention at Saratoga September
IA
JAMES BAXTER, welLknown financial
broker OF Montreal, swore out warrant
on the 21 for the arrest Of William ]. Nc
Garigle, charging him with conspiracy,
the cause of action dating back to the time
when the 6oodler was chief of police of
Chicago.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

LORD SALISBURY, in speech delivered
at Norwich on the 2Sth, warned the Con-
sentative party to prepare for the possible
dissolution of Parliament.
REV. JOSEPH PARKER, of London, babe
farewell to his congregation on the 2Sth
before coming to America to deliver eu-
logy ON Henry Ward Beecher.
By the capsizing of two pleasure yachts
off Yarmouth, Eng, ten persons were
| drowned on the GSth.
A FIRE at Lledkerke, Belgium, on the
2Sth destroyed thirty-three houses, rem
dering two hundred people homeless.
| DURING riot on the Goth at Limerick
| four policemen and many citizens were
injured
ALL of IRELAND had on the 3Oth ult.
been proclaimed under the Coercion act
FIFTY thousand people at Adena, Italy,
were on the Both ult starving, owing to a
total failure of crops.
FooDLER MCGARIGLE who escaped from
| Sheriff Matson in Chicago, was said on the
| 3lst ult. to have landed on Canadian soil.
He was in Sarnia, opposite Port Huron,
Mich.
IT was reported on the 1st that from fif-
teen to twenty deaths from cholera were
occurring in Catania, Italy, daily. The
epidemic was spreading in the provinces.
The town of Sassow, in Austria, was
wiped out by fire on the 1st and over for
ty persons persisted i'll the flames
DURING the month of July there were
three hundred deaths from cholera in the
city of Pedshauer, in Northwestern India.
THE death of Michael n Katkoff the
most prominent politician and journalist
in Russia and editor of the Moscow Ga
Sette occurred in that city ON the 1st at the
age of sixty-nine years.
OFF the Falkland Islands the British
ship STIR of Scotia, from San Francisco
for Queenstown, was wrecked on the LIST,
and the first officer and seven members of
the crew were drowned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
Chicago
THE VOTE IN KEN TUCKY.
General Buckner's Majority The Pro
hihition STRENGTH of the state.

General Buckner's Majority - The Pro
hibition Strength of the state.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 3-The returns
from Mondays election come in slowly
from the State. The Democratic ticket is
elected by from 25,0O) to 81, 90 majority
over the Republican ticket, aud will have
plurality of 10000 over all the tickets.
LEXINGTON, KY, Aug. 3.-Returns from
the election indicate a falling off of the
Democratic vote Making estimates from
reports received, General Buckner's ma
joriy will be less than $1,000, and
his plurality about 10000. The labor
vote was nominal except in Ken
ton County. Local option was the
issue in some coun ties, carrying in two
or three instances The Prohibition vote is
light but there are some votes in nearly
every precinct. The Republican vote in
dicates falling off from that of four
years ago. The Democrats will
have about ninety majority on
joint ballot in the legislature
The Republicans have gainad in the
Legislature. There will be two Labor
mena and three to five Prohibitionists in
the Legislature. The vote in favor of
constitutional convention is almost unan.
imols Fayette County voted against the
whipping post and is in favor of giving,
with Lexington, 500, 900 to the Kentucky
Union railroad.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
HUMOROUS.

In French agricultural school
"Tell me, pray you, how to keep
mutton fresh" by never killing the
sheep"
-O'Brien-''Phwat ais yur fut,
Casey?" Casey has CORN, an
it sphoiIs me walkin'." O'Brien-
Faith, it's rye that shpoils moline. -
Judge.
-"How is your father, Pat?" every
bad, sur, indade. The docthor SCI if
he duzn't rest aisy tomorrow he'll
be dead before morning. "-Arkansas
Traveller.
Regular Caller-'Td like to see
your father, Tommy, if he isn't en-
gagged" Tommy-"He is; but what
is the matter with Clara? She isn't
engaged"
If your boy suddenly astonishes
you by a fondness for hard work don't
be too much elated, oh, deluded father.
First see whether the town isn't billed
for circus.
1t is rather positively asserted that
among the many young ladies who have
been married this year very few have
worn high hats at places of amuse-
ment.- o. Picay@rae.
The phrase midsummer mad
ness" was originated by man who
had been watching another man in a
hammock being toycd with by several
mosquitoes. SODaeruiiLe Journal
Down South they eat pepper on
watermelon. Up North they some
times mix cayenne pepper with the
mustard to warm the plaster after eat
ing watermelon.-J0urnGI Of Educa-
ton.
-Mamma Ito Walter, who has just
returned from his first experiences with
fishing-rod) -"What, back so soonP"
Walter-"Ye s'm; [ thought I'd come
home. The worms were so nervous I
couldn't get 'em on the hooks. "-Har-
per'S BazGr.
The Tragic Fate of Mary
Mary had little lamp,
Twas full Of kerosene;
One day the lamp it did explode
Since then she's not benzine
"A Cincinnati girl met with Sc
we're accident the other day. She was
leaning over pot of boiling coffee
when it exploded and scalded her
frightfullY. Something always hap
pens when a girl steps out of her
propher sphere. Whoever heard of
piano exploding.
Mrs. Foshay (to prospective nur-
sery maid) You are fond of chill
dren of course?" Applicant-"Fond
of EN-? I should say | was, ma am.
If hadn't been I wouldn't nursed
my sisters nine young. ones that was
down with scarlet fever till every
blessed one of them died, am; and
buried the last of them week come
Friday. "--Tid-Bit&
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
TooK THREE LIVES.
Bloody Work of :,ll lnfuriated Husband
at Camden, n. J.-Ee Kills His Wife, D
Justice of the Peace and Himself "A
Tragedy in Jersey City.

Bloody Work of Infuriated Husband
at Camden, N. J.-He Kills His Wife,
Justice of the Peace and Himself "A
Tragedy in Jersey City.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN NEW JERSEY.
CAMDEN, n. j., Aug. 2-William Will
shire; aged fifty. two, a keeper of an oyster
saloon, SHOT dead his wife Ella, aged forty
seven, at South Camden last evening; des
liberately murdered Justice of-the- Peace
William S. Darr (colored) and thea sent
bullet through his own brain, dying almost
instantly.
The Tragedy occurred in Squire Darr's
office. Wiltshire had lived cnhappily
with his wife, and Mrs. Wiltshire, becouis
ing tired of her husbands abuse, went to
Squire Darr's Office recently ana
had warrant issued, charging
him with non support and cru
city. He was ordered to pay
six dollars week for the support of his
wife and children. but gave her only two
dollars. The woman appealed for more
and her husband choked her. She suss
ceeded in getting away from him
and ran to the Office of the I'M
fortunate squire. AS she was telling
the justice her troubles her husband
entered. The squire gently demonstrated
with the man for his wrongful treatment
of his wife, when Wiltshire, who seemed
crazed from an uncomfortable passion,
pulled a large revolver and fired
two shets at his wife, The first
somewhat stunned her, but the Sec
ond did the work. and the wofTan
fell to the floor hfeless Within an lr1'
slant Wiltshire changed his position
slightly and fired at the innocent squire.
The ball struck him in the right temple,
aud, falling, to the floor, he expired instants
! ly Wiltshire walked ont of the Office with
the smoking revolver in his hand with
out saying a word. Walking half a
| block he placed the pistol back of his right
ear, pulled the trigger. and fell to the
ground dead. Squire Darr was forty five
| years old. He was leading Republican
politician, and had served nearly five years
as justice of the peace and had twice
been elected alderman.
KILLED HIS YOUNG WIFE.
NEW York, Aug. I'm Jersey City
yesterday Joseph Schlimmer murdered
his sixteen=year-cAd wife, to whom he was
recently married, because she refused to
live with him. There had been an agrees
ment with the girls parents that the
young couple should not live together for
two years, on account of the BRIDES ten.
der age.
FATAL END OF QUARREL.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2-Monday evening
John G. G. Downer (colored) shot and
killed Daniel Teehan and fatally wounded
Thomas Byrnes. A quarrel between
Byrnes' wife SISTER of Teehan) and the
! wife OF DoWner led to the tragedy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
A FREE FIGHT.
Shst-Guns and Knives Used at the Poll.
a I1,run-Six IIiIIod

Shst-Guns and Knives Used at the Polls
in a Kentucky Town-Six Men Killed.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 3.-During the
election at Manchester, Clay County, Mon
day furious ARRAY broke out between
the Democrats and Republicans. There
was already a feud, and only the excuse Of
a political quarrel was needed. About
sixty were engaged in the fight. Clay is
mountain county in the extreme south
east of the State on the headwaters of
the Kentucky, and not far from those of
the mberland. 1t has only 20l or 800
people, and has of late been orderly.
Monday, according to the mountain
custom, many voters came in armed
with guns, revolvers and bowie knives. A
quarrel arose which brought a shot. A
general fight followed, involving thirty
on side. Pistols were emptied and
clubs and knives flashed. When quiet
was restored six were found dead.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05

chose Daniel Ryan, of Scioto, president,
elected delegates to the National League
and passed resolution endorsing John
Sherman for President
AT crossing near Lake View, Mich,
passenger train on the Detroit, Lansing
& Northwestern railroad ran into wag-
on on the Both ult, and two persons were
instantly killed and two others fatally IN
jured.
NEAR Cincinnati on the 3Oth ult Charles
Williams m de balloon ascension and
when he had reached an altitude of twenty
five hundred feet he leaped from the air.
ship and decended safely to the earth by
means of parachute.
A SUIT was filed by the United States
Attorney at Salt Lake City on the Both
ult. against the trustees of the Mormon
church to disino otporate said church and
wind up its business. The petition alleges
that the property of the church is largely
in excess of the amount allowed by law.
CAPTAIN GILBERT KNAPP, founder Of the
city of Racine Wis, expired at that place
on the 31st ult in his eighty year.
The Savannah valley in Georgia was
flooded by high water on the Both ult, the
cotton and corn crops being destroyed and
much damage done. Hamburg was en-.
lower portions of Augusta were sub
merged. The loss to farmers in the valley
was estimated at 81, 500 900.
NEAR Hadensville, KY, three colored
children were killed by lightning on the
both ult
IN Northern Michigan forest fires were
again raging on the Both ult and much
valuable timber had been burned
WITu ia IUan1r aOd nd On tho Q0th ,11f
the record of the base ball clubs in the Ma
tional League was as follows: Detroit
(games Won), A; Chicago, ~; Boston, 40;
New York, Al; Philadelphia, 81; Washing
ton, %; Pitts burgh, Is; Indianapolis, 20.
TIE tax assessments in the State of
Iowa, as equalized, show a net increase
over last year of S12 00J,000.
WHILE being pursued on the 1st by a
sheriff's posse, near Craig, No., Fletcher
Franklin, member of the old Jesse James
gang, shot and killed Anthony Delong and
Gideon Bostwict.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt on the
night of the 1st at ST. Louis and at Nash
vile, Tenn, but no damage was DONE
BUCKNER, the Dem ocratic candidate for
Governor of Kentucky was on the 1st
elected by about Is, 900 majority.
THE motion for a new trial in the case of
Edward Mcdonald, one of the convicted
Chicago boodlers, was overruled by Judge
Shepard on the 1st and he WAS formally
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary.
The jury in the case of ALT Mccoy, the
saloon keeper charged with the murder of
DR.. Northup Prohibitionist, at Ports
mouth, O., returned verdict on the 1st of
murder in the second degree.
DIR. ST JOHN was arrested in Chicago on
the 1st on charge of completely in the es-
cape of McGarigle, and taken before
Justice White, who fixed his bond at
| 500 COO
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
PERSONAL AND LIBRARY.

Mrs. Martha j. Lamb, editor of
the Magazine Of ABleYican History, has
been elected a fellow of the Clarendon
Historical Society of Edinburgh.
Miss Edith Clarke. of San Fran
cisco, has received silver medal from
the Secretary of the Treasury for saw
ing schoolmate from drowning Au-
gust 81, 1886.
In the recent interesting CORES
pondence between Mr. Bright and Glad
stone the latter addressed his former
colleague as bright" while Bright
wrote '.My dear Mir. Gladstone.
Mrs. A. B. Coulter, of Fairbanks,
has made bed quilt containing 10000
pieces, less than the size of mans
thumb nail. 1t is after pattern called
the bachelors Fancy"
An English novelist has found neat
motive for his forthcoming story. lie
endows his hero with the faculty of
foreseeing the future, but makes him
unable to disclose to any one what he
Knows.
President and Mrs. Cleveland are
very fond of oat meal and always eat
it for breakfast. Mr. Cleveland is not
lover of tobacco and seldom smokes
mote than one cigar day, and this
one Immediately after dinner
A book entitled FIFTY Years "a
Queen" written by Mrs. Katharine
Hodges, of Jersey City, was presented
to the Queen through her private Sec
rotary, by Mrs. Baroline w. Ron7neY,
an American journalist.
1t has been remarked that Mrs.
Cleveland possesses exceptionally
strong wrists, and is, consequently,
able to endure the prolonged hand
shaking of public receptions without
over-fatigue Her strength of muscle
is attributed to her persistent use of
duntsbells. She is said to be quite 81
gymnast, and owes much of her
graceful carriage to the thorough COM
mand of her body given by calls
thenic exercises.
Mrs. Pickett, widow of General
George Z. Pickett, was married when
she was fifteen years of age. Her SON
was born before his mother had
reached her sixteenth year. Mrs.
Pickett is still a very young-lOOking
woman, superbly handsome. Hers is
a dark, voluptuous style of beauty
Since the war she has pcrsistently
avoided society. Her appearance at
Gettysburg was the first she has made
in public for years.
Charles Cushing Barry, who en-
tered tho City Bank, of Boston, as
book-keeper in the height of the panic
of 1887, resigned the position of cash
Ter of the National City Bank recently
on the completion of his fifty years of
service, at the age of eighty-one, and
at q specially called meeting of the
board of directors was presented with
handsome silver pitcher in commence
ration of the event, and was voted one
half of his present salary as an annuity
during his lifetime.
Maria Mitchell is one of those
women whose influence over other
women, especially young women, is
unbounded With the white curls
about her neck and the straigfltfor-
ward, direct look that is a unique charm
in her eyes, her girl students at Vas
sar seem to feel it not merely neces-
sity, but the highest of privileges, to
do whatever she wishes. She lives In
the observatory, with the telescope
running up through the dome in the
middle, space for recitation-rooms and
for the most charming of domestic
manages being found in the two stories
of the wings on either hand.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
The EcYntian Problem.

PARIS Aug 3-The French Minister of
Foreign Affairs has issued a circular re-
garding the Egyptian convention, which
is pitched IN a very mild key. NJ. Ferry
names the two chief objections to the
treaty, commends Englanl for the spirit
of Cancellation she manifested after its re-
lection, and expresses the belief that if
negotiations are renewed the problem will
be found easy of solution. Finally, he as
serts that France only desires such set
tlement as will be agreeable to all the
powers. 1t is now in order for Russia to
be heard from.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
Pig-Iron Schemes.

WASHINGTON, Aug "A company to be
called the Lake Superior Iron Company
is being organized by ex-Secretary Win
dom and ex-senator Dorsey, of Washing
ton; E. Connor and Theodore Myers, of
New York, and Major F. A. Bates, Of
Cleveland. 1t is to control the
output of Bessemer ore by the
mines in the Gogebec and Menom-
inee ranges, in Michigan and Wis
consin. The company is to be capitalized
at the par value of the fourteen mines in
this range-$25, 100000. In order to avoid
exorbitaut rates charged by lake vessels
for freighting ore East, the company will
build eight iron steamships. Another con.
solidaton to be made is by John E. Bur.
ton, and still another by the Wisconsin
Central railroad, which owns the Colby
mines
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
A Terrible Confession of Thirteen-Year,
Old Lad.

EATON, O., Aug. 3.-John Beal, thirteen
years old. who has been in Jail six weeks
on the charge of killing his mother, has
made confession to the prosecuting at
torney, the sheriff and an ex-sherih 1t was
not written down, and the persons are
secretive about the details. On June Is
this boy was at home alone with his
mother at farm house, and about four
O'clock alarmed the ne1ghbors by saying
three tramps had killed his mother, and
that he was asleep, but awakened
in time to see them leaving with
watch and soma money. The
watch has since been found in a vault,
where the boy admits he threw it